I am currently working on a monograph on the modern
historiography of Anglo-Saxon charter studies. Several
very important articles arguing for the existence of a
tenth-century royal writing office were authored by
Dr. Richard Drögereit in the 1930s. I have
found evidence that Professor Albert Brackmann,
editor of the series Deutschland und der Osten
wrote letters of recommendation to
Reichsführer-SS Himmler and the SS-Ahnenerbe
in hope of Drögereit's receiving a subvention to
continue his manuscript studies of Anglo-Saxon charters
at the British Museum.

While I occasionally teach modern German history to
undergraduates, my research expertise is in 10th-11th
century England and Germany and I am somewhat at a loss
as to where I might find any extant correspondence in the
files of the RFSS or the Ahnenerbe on Drögereit's
application. With your unparallelled familiarity with
archival materials of the National Socialist period in
mind, I hope that you might be able to give me some
guidance for this research on possible SS funding of
Drögereit's research. You have my thanks for your
kind attention.

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Dear Gregory

The files of Himmler and of the Ahnenerbe were
extensively microfilmed by the Americans after WW2, and
these microfilms, the T175 series, can be obtained from
the National Archives. First you should consult the
Guides to these microfilms, which were published
originally as oblong foolscap (or legal-) sized
catalogues and are well worth reading; most University
Libraries will have a set of the Guides; I had a set but
all my files were seized in May and I am now lacking
them. The National Archives have put them online as
pdf
files since then. ("Guides to the Captured German
Records" prepared by the American Historical association
for the National Archives.)

Secondly, when I used to research in the Berlin
Document Center controlled by the US Mission in Berlin, I
saw that they had very extensive files of the Ahnenerbe
there. These were organised by name.

The BDC files were subsequently taken over after a
long battle by the Bundesarchiv, after the entire series
had been microfilmed by the Americans; so those films
will also be available in Washington, and the original
files can be viewed at the Bundesarchiv.